Kitty Ballou raisedme this way. Never could I stay up past 10:30. She would
start dragging sock after sock after sock out into the living room,
merowling all the time until I went to bed. Then she would jump up and lay
across my neck. I was her kitten.

Frank gets anxious, too, if I don't go to bed on time. Like yesterday, I
watched a film on TV that lasted until 11.30. At around 11, Frank came
out of the bedroom, got up in my lap and sat there, neither looking at
me or the Tv, just staring ahead. After a while he got down, went to the
bedroom, and then he came back, sat in my lap, went to the bedroom...
until I finally turned off the stoopid box and went to bed. Luckily, as
he's grown older, Frank has stopped making the nighttime noises you
describe. Only once in a while does he yowl in the middle of the night.
He just curls around my head and purrs me to sleep. Nikki uses my legs
for a pillow.

(snip)

Louie, who sleeps on my pillow between my head and the headboard every
night is also an eyelid licker.  He loves to get kisses, so maybe
that's his way of returning them?

Theresa, I checked out your webshot album.  Stinky is a doll, and
looks a lot like my Darla.  I posted 3 pictures of her on
alt.binaries.pictures.animals if you want to take a look.

-bonbon